Deanna Hoak

I’m attending Dragon*Con for the first time this year and am delighted to say that I’ll be one of the “stars” at Strolling with the Stars. I’ll be walking at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 4, and Monday, September 6. If you’re there, come out and meet me and the other great folks!

SFWA just released the final ballot for the 2009 Nebula Awards, and there is an enormous amount of good fiction on it. I was lucky enough to get to copyedit three of the nominees this year: two of the novels (China Miéville’s The City & The City and Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker) and a novelette (Paolo [...]

The deadline for nominating for the Nebula Awards (which will be held about 15 minutes away from me this year, in Cocoa Beach–I hope to see you there!) is next Monday, February 15. If you are a SFWA member and haven’t already done so, sign in to SFWA.org and fill out your Nebula Nomination Ballot. [...]

So I really don’t watch sports, but I have been glancing over at the Super Bowl now and then. I have to say, and this is my only comment on it, that from a copyeditor’s perspective, that commercial with Chevy Chase and the “It’s complementary with an ‘e’; it’s not free” line is absolutely freaking [...]

William Jones, the editor of The Anthology of Dark Wisdom, in which my first story, “The Robidermist’s Steed,” appears, has posted that the anthology has been recommended for a Bram Stoker Award. He notes that a recommendation does not mean the anthology has a full nomination yet, but it is still exciting news. I’m keeping [...]

If you haven’t seen already, the Nebula Awards Weekend will be in Cocoa Beach, May 13-16, scheduled over a shuttle launch weekend. The hotel is actually only twenty minutes from my home, so I’ve been helping SFWA with some of the planning. If you’re an industry pro, you really should think about coming out for [...]

We’re coming to the end of January, and a lot of my friends have made resolutions to lose weight in the coming year. I had started a blog post a long while ago about how to maintain a healthy weight, but I never put it up for a variety of reasons, primarily because I’m not [...]

I just got a thank-you note from Matt Sturges for the copyediting I did on his wonderful book Office of Shadow, forthcoming from Pyr, and thought I’d share: Just finished reviewing your edit and wanted to tell you thanks for doing such a fine job. You made some really clever catches there, such as noticing [...]

Do any of you remember Atlanta Nights, the intentionally awful book written by a group of SF/F pros to prove that PublishAmerica would accept anything? Some wonderful soul has done a complete dramatic reading of it, with each chapter posted to YouTube. Go listen to my so-horrid-it’s-hilarious chapter, and be sure to browse through Manwithoutabody’s [...]

Paul Goat Allen has released his list of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2009, which you should all check out. I had the pleasure of copyediting two of the books on the list–Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker and Ken Scholes’ Canticle. I loved them both. I just finished copyediting Antiphon, the most recent book [...]